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LIQUOR  AND  LINCOLN. 


BY    A    PHYSICIAN. 


From  the  Lincoln    ursurpation,  every  lover  of  Constitu- 
tional liberty  desires  to  be  free.     Ami  every    honest    patriot, 
no  matter  how  ardently  attached  to  the  Old  Union    he   may 
have  been,  now  freely  offers  his  life  and  property,  if  need  be, 
to  secure  that  freedom.     But   ardent    Wishes   and    patriotic 
resolves — loud  professions  of  attachment    to   our    Southern 
Republic,  and  boastful  acclamations   of  what    we    can,  and 
mean  to  do,  will  never  secure  our  independence.     God  reigns 
and  rules  supremely,   over    nations    and    individuals    alike: 
and  He  will  permanently  prosper  no  cause,  the  advocates  of 
which  are  guilty  of  a  constant  disregard  of  his  laws  or  authority. 
This  He  lias  proclaimed  in  his  Holy  Book,  and  ignore  it  as 
we  may,  it  is  inexorably  ;rue  and   certain.     At  one  period  of 
our  struggle,  the  find  of  heaven  beheld  a  nation  on  its  knees, 
and  in  answer  to  their  earnest  prayers,  His  unseen  hand  was 
outstretched  to  direct  and  support   our  struggling  troops  on 
the  bloody  plains  of  Manassas,  and  lead  them  to  victory.  But. 
since  that  memorable  day,  our   people  have   become  vain- 
glorious and  boastful — our  soldiers  profane  and  licentious  ; 
and  no  v  God    has   deserted   us,  and   the  tide  of  fortune  has 
changed,  and  we  are    in   danger  of  being  overrun.     Officers 
anJ  private? — church  members  and  worldlings,  gather  around 
the  festive  board,  and  spend  the  hours  and  days,  in  drinking, 
gambling,  and  too  often,  alas!  in  obscene  and  profane  jocu- 
larity.    The  man  who  raises  his  stalwart  arm  to  break  the 
^hnckles  which  an  earthly  Despot  would  impose  on  this  sunny 
South,  now  bows  at  the  shrine  of  Bacchus,  and  sells  himself 
to  a  Despot,  who  has  enslaved  both  soul  and  body.   While  he 
refuses  to  submit  to  the  authority  of  one,  who  can  do  no  more, 
than  destroy  body  and  property — he  is  paying  his  devotions 
to  another/who  "will  do  no  lets  than  destroy  his  body  and 
property  here,  and  his  immortal  soul  in  hell!  And  all  this  ia 


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done,  under  the  specious  plea,  that  whiskey,  "prevents  disease, 
increases  the  energies,  protects  against  cold    and  heats,  and  is 

ADVANTAGEOUS     TO    AN    ARMY     ABOUT    TO     ENGAGE    IN    BATTLE !" 

In  a  brief  article,  it  is  impossible  to  give  the  evidence,  which 
is  in  the  possession  of  every  respectably  intelligent  physician, 
to  establish  the  folly  and  falsehood  of  these  declarations. 
Suffice  it  to  say,  that  carefully  collected  and  arranged  statis- 
tics, prepared  by  the  sanitary  officers  of  the  British  army 
through  a  space  of  thirty  years,  establish  the  following  facts  : 

1.  That  the  Total  Abstinence  regiments,  can  endure  more 
labor,  more  cold,  more  heat,  more  exposure,  and  more  priva- 
tions than  those  who  have  their  regular  grog  rations. 

2.  That  they  are.  less  liable  to  fevers,  fluxes,  pleurisies, 
colds,  chills,  rheumatisms,  jaundice  aud  cholera  than  other 
regiments.      ' 

3.  That  when  attacked  by  any  of  these  diseases  their  re- 
covery is  much  more  certain  and  speedy. 

4.  That  they  are  much  more  readily  aroused  from  the  ef- 
fects of  concussions  and  severe  wounds,  and  are  far  less  liable 
to  lockjaw  or  mortification  after  wounds. 

5.  That  only  about  six  in  the  temperance  regiments  die, 
from  all  causes,  to  ten  of  the  other  regiments. 

These  tacts  are  collected  from  various  fields  of  observa- 
tion— from  Africa,  Canada,  Greenland,  India,  the  East  Indias, 
West  Indias,  and  the  Crimea.  And  facts  as  these  are  worth 
all  the  theories  and  conjectures,  which  may  be  spun  out  in  a 
thousand  years,  by  the  unreliable,  and  unconciously  suborned 
witnesses  of  King  Alcohol.  For  it  is  the  easiest  matter  in 
the  world  for  any  man  to  convince  himself,  that  whatever  he 
wishes  to  do  is  really  the  best  thing  he  can  do. 

How  sad  it  is  to  reflect,  that  fathers  and  mothers  have  sent 
their  sons  into  the  army  of  independence,  to  be  watched  over 
and  protected  by  faithful  and  competent  officers,  and  those 
officers  should  become  the  instruments  of  initiating  these  in- 
genuous youths  into  the  vices  of  drinking  and  gambling? 
And  yet  it  is  no  less  true  than  sad. 

But  how  is  it  that  "a  little  whiskey  is  beneficial  to  an 
array  about  to  engage  in  battle?"  Medical  writers  tell  us; 
that  it  increases  thirst,  unduly  excites  the  mind  and  body  for 
a  time,  to  bo  speedily  followed  by  a  corresponding  depression. 
It  can  not  then  be  of  any    benefit  physically.     The  soldier 


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has  to  obey  the  ordersof  his  officers,  andhis  obedience  is  rather 
mechanical  than  intellectual.  So  it  must  be  alone  morally 
beneficial!  But  have  the  defenders  of  the  South  so  far  degenera- 
ted already,  as  to  require  the  aid  of  whiskey  to  arouse  them  to  a 
sense  ot»  their  obligations  to  country,  friends  and  home?  Have 
they  no  higher  incentive  to  action  than  low,  brute  passion, 
which  is  alone  excited  by  whiskey?  Heed  they  not  the  appeals 
of  oppressed  sons  and  daughters  from  every  Southern  State, 
who  have  been  driven  from  their  homes  by  the  cruel  invader? 
Do  they  feel  no  patriotic  impulse  animating  their  souls,  and 
nerving  their  arms  to  strike  for  the  honor  and  liberty  of 
mothers,  wives,  sisters  and  daughters,  and  all  that  the  heart 
holds  dear,  unless  they  are  under  the  influence  of  whiskey? 
Is  it  possible  that  State  pride — love  of  home  and  country,  a 
high  sense  of  honor  and  a  patriotic  devotion  to  principle,  are 
not  enough  to  nerve  every  arm  and  fire  every  heart,  without 
the  aid  of  whiskey?  Oh  !  shame  upon  my  countrymen  if  this 
be  so ! 

Better  had  we  bowed  the  neck  to  Lincoln's  yoke,  than 
made  ourselves  the  willing  slaves  of  grovelling  passions,  and 
depraved  appetites.  All  the  honors  and  glories  of  a  hundred 
battles  fought  and  won,  cannot  etTace  from  the  fair  escutcheon 
of  the  South,  this  foul  and  degrading  moral  pollution.  Nor, 
so  long  as  it  lasts,  can  the  prayers  of  all  the  saints,  and  the 
blood  and  fat  of  all  the  goats  and  bullocks  from  a  thousand 
hills,  propitiate  the  favor  of  heaven,  or  setsure  in  our  behalf 
the  interposition  of  a  benignant  Providence. 

This  evil  musl  be  abated — this  nefarious  habit  must  be 
broken,  or  our  liberties  will  be  lost,  and  our  country  ruined. 
No  wonder  the  bones  of  thousands  of  our  brave  defenders 
have  been  left  to  bleach  on  their  native  hills,  when  drunken 
ignoramuses,  under  the  appellation  of"  Surgeon,  "  have  delt 
them  more  numerous  and  deadly  blows  than  the  missiles  of 
the  enemy.  No  wonder  that  disasters  have  befallen  our 
arms,  when,  in  defiance  of  the  mandates  of  heaven,  and  the 
melting  appeals  of  suffering  humanity,  reeling  inebriates, 
are  appointed  to  lead  our  brave  cohorts  to  the  charge.  No 
wonder  that  God  has  lorsaken  us  when  we  raise  the  puny 
arm  of  rebellion  against  his  authority,  and  proclaim,  that 
we  will  not  have  this  man,  Christ  Jesus,  to  reign  over  ue. 
Nor;  should  any  one  wonder  to  see  our  fields  desolated  during 


LIQUOR   AND   LINCOLN. 

the  present  year  by  blighting  droughts, when  we  are  consum- 
ing the  bountiful  supplies  of  Providence,  in  past  years,  iu  "dis- 
tilled damnation/'  to  destroy  the  souls  and  bodies  of  our 
people! 

Every  thing  worthy  of  a  manly  consideration  in  our  land 
demands  of  our  people,  bur  army  and  our  Government  to 
abate  this  evil.  The  mothers  and  maidens  from  every  hill  and 
vale  in  the  South,  demand  it.  The  thousands  of  treasure 
squandered  by  drinking,  drunken,  stupid,  thoughtless,  cal- 
lous Legislators  demand  it.  The  alarming  increase  of  bloody 
crime  in  the  capital  of  the  Confederacy  demands  it.  The 
warning  fortunes  of  bleeding  Liberty,  as  she  bends  with  weep- 
ing eyes  over  her  struggling  sons,  demand  it.  The  present 
welfare  and  future  hopes  of  the  entire  South,  in  earnest  and 
eloquent  tones,  importunately  and  imperiously  demand  it. 
The  clouds  of  ghosts  wrested  daily  from  the  bodies  of  our 
brave  defenders  by  this  monster  evil, pointing  to  their  bleach- 
ing bones  as  they  lie  scattered  by  every  by-path  of  the 
army,  demand  it.  Our  duty  to  ourselves,  our  country  and 
our  God  demands  it.  "For  if  a  nation  forsakes  the  stat- 
utes and  commandments  of  God,"  he  has  declared,  "he  will 
cast  them  out  of  his  sight  and  make  them  a  proverb  and  a 
by-word  among  all  nations.  And  to  him  who  asks,  why 
hath  the  Lord  done  this  unto  this  land,  it  shall  be  answered 
because  they  forsook  the  Lord  God,  therefore  hath  he  brought, 
all  this  evil  upon  them/'  "  But  if  you  will  call  upon  ray 
name,"  saith  Jehovah.  '*  humble  yourselves,  pray  and  seek 
my  face  and  turn  from  your  wicked  ways  ;  then  will  I  hear 
from  heaven,  forgive  your  sins,  and  heal  your  land."  What 
God  speaketh,  let  a  struggling  Nation  heed  ! 


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